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    patient to the Reuben Forsters who hold the keys of your meat ; purr to them , and perhaps they will give you a bit . About a year and a month after his father ' s death , he takes to him a wife ; not within a year and three weeks , that would have been highly improper , irreligious . His wife ' was worth her weight in gold , ' one of her points of worth was she had little schooling , * I mean as to scholarshi p / says Reuben , ' for she was a slow reader , even in the Bible , and she wrote a clumsy hand enough . " Ye mechanics , be warned how ye select wives that have booklearning , and can read without spelling the long words and skipping the hard ones , for if they are so learned and do not write a text as if a hedgestake were the pen , they will never darn your hose , nor scour your pots and pans , nor are they likely to have the audacity to choose instructors to your offspring .

    Shortly subsequent to the birth of his first child , he made acquaintance with persons who instilled into his mind the devilish doctrine , that , mechanic as he was , he ought to have a voice in the affairs of his country , and to raise up his arm against oppression . This is the pivot on which the Rev . Charles B . Tayler , A . M ., country parson of the Church of England , turns his plot , dialogue , and catastrophe . To suffer himself to be influenced by such opinions was 'very silly , and very wicked in a mechanic , for ,

    mark the consequence , as certain as that you will reap gorse bushes if you plant cabbages . Two of his new friends were suspected strongly of turning stage-players afterwards ! nay , it appears in a note which the reverend author has appended to the page , they actually really did so disgrace Reuben Forster , for they were seen performing together in the Wood Demon , at Bartholomew Fair ! ! P Another swindled him out of fifty pounds , in the hope of recovering which , Reuben Forster goes to London , and there plunges deeper into the infamv of Political Unions and

    Reform Meetings , and what any common foresight would have shown him , was as certain as that the moon is made of green cheese , becomes horribly infused with infidelity and bold sceptical effrontery . However , his heart is touched by remorse , as he sits ensconced in a profane bookseller ' s shop , and listens to the words of c a pious and aged gentleman , whose appearance was remarkably pleasing ; ' he was the pink of parsons . What impression the worthy gentleman made on Collinson , the

    bookseller s mind , we are left to guess ; not so with Keuben rorster , he became admiringly disturbed , but his pride and vanity was fullblown , he thought himself a great speaker at the clubs , a lecturer as the Rev . Charles B . Tayler , A . M . country parson of the Church of England , calls it , * and he was not come to himself ;' but an incident at the Rotunda' completed his restoration ; his pocket was picked there of his watch and money . Poor Reuben Forster ! There , let this be a warning to you all , mechanics Note you the evil consequences of attending reform meetings ;

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    736 Social Evils and their Remedy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 736, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/4/